World Checklist of Selected Plant Families

The World Checklist Selected of Selected Plant Families has become an international collaborative programme with more than 150 contributors from 22 countries. As more families are compiled and made available online, the more this number grows. There has also been a considerable amount of data sharing with researchers and other online data providers who have incorporated large numbers of WCSP records. The database is live and updated daily. Newly published names however are automatically added from IPNI to the database but are only made visible on the website after an editing phase of about one year. So remember that if you publish a name in November 2009, it will probably be entered into IPNI in the beginning of 2010 and may take until 2011 before it becomes visible on the website. See http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/about.do